Punctuating Titles

Punctuating Titles

The 2 Ways to Punctuate Titles: • ITALICIZE or Underline • Use “QUOTATION MARKS”

Use Italics or Underline for . . . • Novels • Plays • Book length poems • Newspapers/Magazines • Movies/TV shows • Works of art/Names of ships • Long Musical Compositions • Album titles

Here are some examples: • Macbeth • The Catcher in the Rye • Seinfeld • The Boston Globe • Sports Illustrated • The Mona Lisa • The Iliad/The Odyssey • The Titanic

Use “Quotation Marks” for . . . • Poetry • Short stories • Articles • Songs • Chapters • Titles of Websites • When referring to Essay titles

Here are some examples: • “The Road Not Taken” • “Biography of a Dress” • “You Give Love a Bad Name”

Helpful Tips: • Capitalize all important words in a title • Prepositions can be capitalized • No title should ever be both italicized and put in quotes • Coordinating conjunctions are usually not capitalized, unless they are at the beginning of a sentence

Helpful Tips (continued): • Punctuation, like periods & commas, goes inside quotation marks • Larger works, like CDs & books, are italicized, and smaller works, like songs & chapters, are put in quotes • Articles (a, an, the) are not always capitalized • Remember---underline titles only when you are handwriting something

Punctuating Titles Practice Worksheet Class work: Complete 1-13Homework: Complete 14-25

Punctuating Titles